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Definition of idyll in US English:

idyll

noun

‘Born in 1901, her childhood was a happy idyll enough until World War One awakened her to reality.’

‘Public entertainment can go ahead at the Barge Inn at Honeystreet despite some strenuous opposition from neighbours wanting to preserve their rural idyll.’

‘It might be associations, such as memories of holidays, pastoral idylls, the peacefulness, the slower pace, or a whole imagined way of life.’

‘And were any of the shops in this mono-cultural rural idyll aware that it is the Jewish festival of Purim?’

‘Goth, however, was one style that did achieve some form of visibility - although you'll note that I say the late 1980s because, like most things, it took a few years to make its way out to our rural idyll.’

‘The concrete, pebble-dashed trees under the plaque suggest that this form of community history is made up of a hankering back to a rural idyll, but one that is compromised already by the urban.’

‘Some highlights from the research shows that those firms looking beyond Dublin to get out of the traffic jams may not fare any better by chasing the rural idyll.’

‘Now the proposals have been approved by planning officers and the final hurdle to the creation of their perfect rural idyll has been crossed.’

‘So even if a group is composed exclusively of altruists, all behaving nicely towards each other, it only takes a single selfish mutant to bring an end to this happy idyll.’

‘The sniper was merely a rupture in the domestic idyll of Virginian life: everything around was peaceful.’

‘Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity.’

‘Lambs are the icons of the rural idyll, the faces that grace a thousand Lake District postcards and the sight that brightens the spirits of even the most jaded commuters as they flash past Cumbrian hills.’

‘The ‘quality of life index’ suggests the happiest Scots live in the Highlands where the rural idyll of low crime, a strong sense of community and good health remains largely intact.’

‘But like most rural idylls everything is not as it seems, the club suffers from more than its fair share of vandalism.’

‘But in the weeks ahead the concept of Europe is going to be more than just a bureaucratic nightmare or a holiday idyll.’

‘He started painting rural idylls featuring churches and meadows which he intended to sell to the urban bourgeoisie.’

‘On the big screen, however, Oban has always been portrayed as a pastoral idyll.’